System Administration

Every user or group can check their disk quota with the
command quota. This command produces a report
that contains information for all file systems listed in the
/etc/fstab. Give the command quota -u (for user
quota) or quota -g (for group quota) or a
combination to obtain this information. If no quotas are set, the
command quota -u results in the following
output:

Quota is working very well for me
in my work, where there are approximately 300 users on our system.

Jan Rooijackers
works at Ericsson Data
Netherlands as an Information Systems Engineer. His first contact
with Unix was in 1991 and with Linux in 1994. He likes to spend
time with his family and his PCs. He can be reached via e-mail at
Jan.Rooijackers@dsn.ericsson.se.

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